Back when Game of Thrones was still a good show, it had some of the most interesting characters on television—be they protagonists, antagonists, or anything in between. Then the whole circus fell into a black hole of despair after season 5, and most of these characters had to be forcibly fed a bunch of stupid pills to make the (even more) stupid story beats seem decent. At least a handful of them managed to escape this fate and remained truly excellent until the end—and Lyanna Mormont is definitely one of them.Recommended Videos When we are introduced to Lyanna Mormont—named, of course, after Lyanna Stark, Ned’s sister and Jon Snow’s true mother—she has just become the new Lady of Bear Island, a remote island in the Bay of Ice in the North. Lyanna’s succession happened after her mother, Maege Mormont—sister of Jeor Mormont, the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch when Jon joined its ranks—died after following Robb Stark south during the War of the Five Kings. While her part in Game of...
